Author: Alex Bakker The convergent forces of the New Master Architecture – Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics, and Integration – are driving rapid change in Enterprise and LOB IT capabilities. Simultaneously, the consequences of these rapid changes are man ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Saugatuck ...

Author: Mike West The Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without concomitant challenges to data management. Saugatuck see seven important trends within ...

Authors: Bruce Guptill, Charlie Burns One result of the continual consumerization of IT, including Mobility, BYOD, and Cloud, is that the Annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas often is an indicator of significant change or improvement in IT ...

Author: Mike West Since launching our expanded Boundary-free Enterprise™ framework earlier in 2012, we have had a fair number of interesting questions come in over the transom, so to speak. Our clients have posed most of these, but others have come up at ...

Author: Mike West The move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ and its enabling Master Architecture is impacting both the way business is being conducted, and the portfolio of technologies required to enable this change. On both sides of the proposition – o ...

Author: Mike West Saugatuck recently conducted an interview research program that took an in-depth look at how the Cloud is evolving. In Part 1 of this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we asked if these industry leaders could see change in what their custom ...

Author: Mike West ISVs are experiencing several, sometimes simultaneous waves of Cloud transition across portfolios that affect their development strategies and requirements. Interviews with industry thought leaders identify the most important technologi ...

Author: Alex Bakker Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) are facing a signifcant evolution as they mature. Expanded platform capabilities, and functional uniformity between vendors has opened the door for leaders in the space to strategically focus on expan ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Microsoft took some of the wraps off its newest version of Office this week, showing off its Cloud-related aspects and making it available for testing. While this is an important and necessary step for Microsoft, what was revealed i ...

Author: Mike West Earlier this year, Saugatuck Technology conducted a global survey of senior business and IT executives focused on preferences for deploying new business software / solutions 2012-2015 (see Note 1). Some of the findings were rather surpr ...

Author: Alex Bakker Integration is a primary facet of the Master Architecture that enables the transformative IT model we have termed the Boundary-free Enterprise™. In order to best serve their clients, IT vendors need to understand what the effects of l ...

Author: Mike West An emerging and disruptive master architecture – combining Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics plus Integration to on-premises Data Assets – is now forming to enable the Boundary-free Enterprise™ that Saugatuck foresaw in 2008. The ...

Author: Mike West Integration redefines the meaning and the value of solutions and platforms in the Cloud. Instead of a standalone set of Cloud resources, integration enables both economy and synergy, innovation and reach, as solutions and technologies l ...

Author: Mike West Broker-Aggregator offerings have become an important route to market for Cloud master brands, for small business SaaS vendors and for telecom providers, system integrators and other Cloud enablers, as channels for delivery of Cloud solu ...